"The grand narrative that is the scientific enterprise must be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of the human intellect, a true testimonial to our collective ability to jointly create knowledge. Science is a response to our urge to understand, to make sense of the world we live in and our place in it. It addresses the same age-old questions that have haunted and inspired humanity throughout the ages, questions of origins and endings, of place and meaning. We need to know who we are; we need to know where we are and how we got here. Science speaks directly to our humanity, to our quest for light, even more light.

If reason is the tool we use in science, it is not its motivation. We don't attempt to understand the world as an end in itself. Our search defines us, imprinted as it is with what makes us human:  the passion and the drama, the challenges, the experience of elation and defeat, the perennial itch to move on, the disturbing but teasing sense that we know so little - that wonders await us, hidden from view, tantalizingly close, yet so mysterious."

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